Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 327

"You gave them to me." Colin's fingers traced the lower-right corner of the specimen, where a black signature with the letters 'C' - Caldwell's initial - was inscribed.

I stared at Colin, my breath catching. "Me? I gave these to you?"

All of these specimens?

"You said that the beauty of a shooting star lies in its fleeting moment. That the brief bloom of a night-blooming cereus is enough to dazzle everyone..." Colin turned to look at me, his voice as raspy as ever.

But it seemed to carry an endless stream of loneliness, grievance, and guilt. "Life is short, to preserve them forever, this was the only way."

I was shocked as I gazed at the walls filled with butterfly specimens. For a moment, they all seemed to come alive, flapping their wings, taking flight.

"I can't believe I would... like these," I said in astonishment.

Colin took my hand and led me into a room in the basement.

The door had a keypad, sturdy like a bank vault.

As the door swung open, I followed Colin inside.

a tingling shock ran

finally opened his

willing to trust me completely, revealing his hidden secrets, his

covered with Colin's investigations - about Damian, about me, my parents, the people from the orphanage, and... some individuals

there was the current serial murder

was like he was watching over everyone, like the

at Colin, a mix of panic and fear

really be the

first serial murder case. Three years ago, after I left the psychiatric hospital, there was a series of mysterious

ends through slips, accidents, drownings, fires - seemingly unrelated, yet somehow

suspect that the person behind those 'accidents' is the same one behind the serial killings?" I asked

in common

illegal practices at the psychiatric hospital. "This man, Lamont, was one of the few with a conscience among the

doctor Dexter had brought to provoke

these deaths... they all revolve around

had all once hurt, bullied, and

turn towards me, while the real killer often

back then, you had this chain of evidence... why

at me, his Adam's

tell me everything, right?" I asked, my heart pounding.